19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
3:48 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
What amazes me is that no one has ever marketed a
mainframe-like
machine out of modern processors. Someone mentioned they had made
one out of a 286 and some z80s, but why did no single company ever
sell any? I would think such machines could be very useful. OTOH, it
makes more money to sell 1000 machines than 3 machines and 1000 dumb
terminals...sometimes I wish capitalism was never invented...
WHat are you talking about? Pretty much the only super computers being
manufactured today are designed as massively parallel systems using
microprocessors.
What does capitalism have to do with it? Do you think Communist countries
would have been cloning US made computers if their shit was so great? Get
a clue, Max.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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